Kat Brown27 May 2015 • 10:00am

The notoriously Hollywood-phobic comics writer Alan Moore has made plain his aversion to film adaptations of his comics, and now one of those five existing films is to be remade.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was filmed in 2003 and starred Sean Connery in his last live-action role.

The League is a supergroup of Victorian-era literary heroes formed to protect the British Empire comprising Mina Murray (of Dracula fame, now divorced from husband Jonathan), Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, The Invisible Man, and Mr Jekyll (and, by extension, his unsavoury counterpart Mr Hyde).

Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray joined the team for the film, with The Invisible Man renamed "A" Invisible Man due to rights issues over the character.

Variety reports that I, Robot producer John Davis will oversee the project, which will again be made by Twentieth Century Fox.

According to Variety, Fox had planned for the 2003 film to become a franchise, but decided against it following global box revenues of a lower than hoped $180 million.